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来 kanji
come, due, next, cause, become
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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ライタイ
Kun readings
くるきたるきたすきたすきたるきこ
Variant forms
來Words with 来
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —あれ以来since then
- —一別以来since our last meeting; since we parted
- —好機到来advent of a golden opportunity
- —捲土重来recouping one's strength for a renewed attack; making another attempt with redoubled efforts
- —尽未来際to the end of time; to the crack of doom; for ever and ever
- —神武以来since the era of the Emperor Jimmu; (first ever) since the dawn of Japan's history; unprecedented
- —開闢以来since the beginning of the world; since the dawn of history
- —時機到来a good chance coming along; the time has come (for, to, when ...); opportunity knocking
- —時刻到来arrival of the ideal time (for); arrival of an opportunity (to)
- —時節到来the time has come (for, to, when ...); the time being ripe (for)
- —商売往来business handbook (with glossary) of the Edo period
- —南蛮渡来imported to Japan by early European traders
- —父祖伝来hereditary; patrimonial; handed down from generation to generation
- —来世信仰belief in the next world; belief in the hereafter
- —人馬往来the passage of people and horses; coming and going of people and horses
- —大日如来Vairocana; Mahavairocana (Bliss Body of the historical Gautama Buddha); Dainichi Buddha; Nyorai Buddha
- —本来ならby all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
- —祖師西来the coming of Bodhidharma from western India to China
- —意志未来volitional future
- —五智如来five dhyani buddhas; five wisdom buddhas